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• Commented on "Close. The. Box. Walk away"
  Hmm, I've just received an owl...by FedEx....
• Commented on Berlusconi's immunity-for-me law overturned
  Next thing you know they'll be having a coup like in Honduras....
• Commented on The American Spirit
  Any post that features a poll of readers of Parade Magazine should be tagged Fortean and Discordian. "Everything is true. Nothing is permitted."...
• Commented on Story about Wal-Mart founder's treatment of his employees
  I skimmed 65 comments looking for a criticism or debunking of minimum wage laws. I don't think I saw one, except for #39 NICOBAN, who resorts to sarcasm: "We should just make minimum wage $10, or $100, or hell $1,000...
• Commented on Irate Chinese gamers block re-launch of classic game by blockading the gates to its cities
  Just realized some readers might miss the irony of my own last paragraph. Without irony: Egypt Urnash, Kaini and TheCrawNotTheCraw seem to be coolly assuming that behavior like this protest has so little to do with what is wanted in...
• Commented on Irate Chinese gamers block re-launch of classic game by blockading the gates to its cities
  If I understand the screen shot correctly, each player has a label giving their screen name. If so, this is an interesting hybrid between (virtual) civil disobedience and a petition. I agree that the game developers have the right to...
• Commented on Howie Tsui's Asian/Western horror paintings
  I think the goggles on this one make it look more like a peloscopus, although they don't telescope....
• Commented on London bus with 16 CCTV cameras inside
  I great game, by the way, is to count the surveillance cameras in any environment you find yourself in. Dunkin Donuts is a great place for it, it makes me wonder what crap goes down in DDs when I'm not...
• Commented on Police Women of Broward County takes reality cop TV to new depths
  Time to reread Hakim Bey's "Resolution for the 1990s: Boycott Cop Culture!": http://tinyurl.com/boycottcop Or hear the Hakim Bey / Bill Laswell audio: http://tinyurl.com/boycottcop-mp3...
• Commented on Depression as a pro-survival adaptation that solves hard problems
  Okay I read the Scientific American article (not the one in Psychological Review) and it's pretty bad in parts. The good part: it's plausible that there are adaptations to help us focus on problems, that sometimes that state amounts to...
• Commented on Depression as a pro-survival adaptation that solves hard problems
  I get that the summary doesn't do the article justice, but I can't resist this: "depression as a pro-survival adaptation that allows for ... introspection that, when combined with analytical techniques similar to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, resolves complex troubles." Sorry...
• Commented on A kinder, gentler rendition under Obama
  Why move detainees offshore except to escape oversight?...
• Commented on 1932 banana-ice cream injector patent
  "I.C. Wiener!?" Seriously, folks, productized is totally a word among people who, er, productize things. @TJ S: It very well may have been produced by a patent draftsman. Draftsmen used to do their letters and numbers by hand in prescribed...
• Commented on Addicted to exercise?
  Yeah, new confirmation for old stuff. Positive Addiction by William. Glasser was a pop account from 1976, so the research must have been older than that....
• Commented on XKCD explains how to be a tech-support guru
  So yeah, some of it's knowing, or knowing how to find out. But also it's the bronze nerves that let you put up with the process....
• Commented on Nanoparticles linked to illness and death in factory workers exposed to them
  No question people should be smart and careful about the crap they expose themselves to. And employers should be proactively decent and safety- conscious about their workers. But the use of the term "nanoparticle" here is so vague as to...
• Commented on @BBVBOX: recent guest-tweeted web video picks (boingboingvideo.com)
  "Houston, nous avons un problème..."...
• Commented on In America, it is increasingly illegal to be poor.
  Xeni, I am as puzzled as #54 Susan Oliver: what's exclamation pointy about Barbara Ehrenreich?...
• Commented on What Worked Then
  Except for the screen size, what's the difference between this and a typical 2009 sports bar? In my experience, '70s middle-class families tended to have a 20" color TV, usually in a separate, wood-grained box on the living room floor,...
• Favorited Kathe Koja's BUDDHA BOY audiobook: bravery, bullying, complicity and opting-out on Boing Boing
• Commented on Tapecraft: art made with tape and markers
  Scotch tape existed in the big bang before the duct tape formed....
• Commented on We Want the Public Option, a novel approach to online petitions
  "You can sign your name as a member of the 76%, and names will be continually rotated into the actual ad aired on TV. Pretty innovative. Check it out." So, er, it sometimes takes a minute for Web 2.0 things...
• Commented on The "super-villain transparencies" brain-teaser
  For anyone who comes back years later, here's a nice visualization of an XOR-based code, although not with the slide method. Imagine a 2x2x2 cube of little black and white blocks in a checkerboard pattern. So the top layer is...
• Favorited Rocket Making for Amateurs - Another Living Dangerously Art on Boing Boing
• Commented on Slate on favorite orphaned tweets -- "picking lint from Judy's naval while she is napping!"
  Oh you mean I could tweet the things I send to myself, like, "I can shave when I'm dead." ?...
• Commented on France's three-strikes copyright rule is unconstitutional and hence dead
  "It [the Constitutional Council] decided that presumption of innocence is more important than the idiotic schemes from the entertainment industries to artificially prolong their obsolete models." Not mere dry reportage but a generous ladle of gravy as well!...
• Commented on I love the XPERIA X2's keyboard
  This is confusing. That is a definitely a sub-chiclet keyboard....
• Commented on Odd photo of the week
  The sculpture is cute, interesting. But the photograph with butt crack included is art. Btw somehow this looks like a scene in an airport, one of those transitional places like the bridge in The Scream. Good God, Samaritan! (aka Lets...
• Commented on The "super-villain transparencies" brain-teaser
  #72 posted by dhasenan Here is how we have been doing XOR with slides. A pixel in a stack of three slides is clear if it's clear in the first slide AND the second slide AND the third slide, otherwise...
• Commented on The "super-villain transparencies" brain-teaser
  #69 posted by KP, The beauty of Richard Kirk’s solution is that any of the slides can use any of those three pairs of patterns in each block, and his wording makes them automatically, but randomly, use three different pairs,...